A New Year... A New Job!

Things happen quickly in fast-paced big cities like Baltimore and Washington.



Unlike the tedious turmoil regarding the selection of our nation's president, my new job in the nation's capital seemed to come about too quickly. One day I'm quietly sitting in my office at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, when I get a call - quite out of the blue - from Children's Hospital (Children's National Medical Center) in D.C. Even the person who called me was almost embarrassed by the fact that she was cold-calling someone forty miles away about a job opening. However, the more I listened, the more I agreed with her that it was at least worth the trip to explore the possibility. Now, a few weeks later, I'm writing part of this page of my journal as I travel on the MARC train on my way back home to the Monumental City from my first day at my new job in THE city of monuments.



So, the Baltimore Museum of Industry is now without a Director of Development & Marketing, while Children's National Medical Center has a new Grants Manager. I've left behind my harbor view and the several hats I was wearing, but I now work as "the writer" and part of an entire department of about twenty people who probably do not know that in a different dimension, at some smaller non-profit organization, they could all be melded into one person, much like I was just a few weeks ago. Plus, now there's the excitement of working in Washington, a true metropolis, with a wonderful urban core of stores, restaurants, nightlife.... The type of city I sometimes proclaim, pretend, portend my hometown of Baltimore to be. But there is more and more cohesion between these two cities these days, as evidenced by the recent joint bid for the Olympics, as well as the number of people I see commuting back and forth.



My thanks to everyone back in Baltimore at the Museum who helped to add two very eventful and meaningful years to my career. And thanks again for the gift of the Handspring Visor, which I am using to write this entry. How appropriate that I use the latest technology for this too... Since the good people at Children's Hospital found me electronically, through my web page.



(Yes, those weekends of teaching myself HTML and web graphics were indeed worth it after all! )